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Application for The Use Of Data for Scientific Purposes

TO BE COMPLETED BY THE APPLICANT

Applicant details Name Laura Howells

University, institute or other institution Princeton University

Structural unit and position PhD Candidate, Department of Political Science

Postal address Fisher Hall, #001, Princeton, NJ 08544

E-mail [email protected]

Phone +1 (203) 822-3930

Other data users, or supervisors of the project* (NOT APPLICABLE)

Name

University, institute or other institution

Structural unit and position

Postal address

E-mail

Phone

*Include contact information for all data users, if necessary.

Requested research datasets1*

Name of the study or database

Eesti Integratsiooni Monitooring

The composition of the requested data (e.g. the survey year for which data is requested, list of questions or list of chapters from the questionnaire, variables or databases).

1 The Ministry of Culture does not disclose personal data to third parties. The personal data used in the research datasets that are

made available to the applicant have been anonymized in advance.

Application number

Data

Completed by the Minstry of Culture Kultuuriministeerium

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ANONYMIZED DATA FROM THE FOLLOWING YEARS AND SECTIONS LISTED BELOW: 2011: TÄHTPÄEVAD, KUULUVUSTUNNE JA INIMSUHTED; SUHTLEMINE TEISTE RAHVUSTEGA; KOKKUPUUDE TEISTEGA; „RÄÄGIME KODUMAA JA KODAKONDSUSE TEEMAL“; HARIDUS JA NOORED; „LÕPETUSEKS VEEL MÕNED KÜSIMUSED TEIST“ 2015: TAUST I; KONTAKTID NING KEELTEOSKUS; HARIDUSSÜSTEEM EESTIS, VENEKEELSE GÜMNAASIUMI ÜLEMINEK EESTIKEELSELE ÕPPELE; KODAKONDSUSPOLIITIKA; TAUST II

2017: TAUST I; KONTAKTID NING KEELTEOSKUS; HARIDUSSÜSTEEM ; KODAKONDSUS; TAUST II 2020: 1. TAUST; 3. VÕRDNE KOHTLEMINE JA LIGIPÄÄS TEENUSTELE; 4. KONTAKTID; 6. ÜLDISED LÕIMUMISALASED HOIAKUD NING SEOS EESTIGA; 8. HARIDUSSÜSTEEM; 9. KODAKONDSUS JA POLIITILINE-ÜHISKONDLIK OSALUS; TAUST II 2023: 1. TAUST I; 4. VÕRDNE KOHTLEMINE JA LIGIPÄÄS TEENUSTELE; 5. KONTAKTID; 6. ÜLDISED LÕIMUMISALASED HOIAKUD NING SEOS EESTIGA; 10. HARIDUSSÜSTEEM; 11. KODAKONDSUS JA POLIITILINE-ÜHISKONDLIK OSALUS; 15. TAUST II

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Purpose of data use

Title of research, study, project or grant name The Politics of Nation- and State-Building in Estonia

Duration of research, study or project: months or years (e.g. 12/2024–12/2025 or 2025–2026)

9/2023 —present (First phase of project to conclude upon dissertation defense in 2027).

A brief description of the research, study or project. This project aims to shed light onto trends in public opinion prior to the transition to Estonian-language instruction related to education, citizenship, and belonging. Data from the Estonian Integration Monitoring Survey from years 2011–2023 will supplement public opinion survey data that I have collected in 2024 and 2025 about the transition.

Description of the use of the database(s), access rights, storage and destruction conditions. I agree to faithfully abide by all data security provisions determined by the Ministry of Culture in terms of data sharing and storage. In keeping with the ethics committee data protection standards at Princeton University, all data received for this project will be stored in encrypted folders and on a password- protected computer.

Planned Publications

Dissertation project (in book form); peer-reviewed academic articles

In what format should the data be transferred?

Preferred format (e.g. CSV, Excel, SPSS, TXT)

CSV, Excel or SPSS are preferred, but the researcher is grateful for delivery in any format.

*Files are sent as an encrypted email attachment after the application is approved (Estonian ID card required) or

through a secure data exchange environment. If necessary, another method of data transmission can be agreed

upon that complies with the requirements for secure processing of personal data.

Supporting documents and signature submitted with the application. The requested data may only be

used for the purpose specified in the application!

Applicant name

If necessary, other relevant documents might be requested. Please include the approvals of the Data Protection Inspectorate or the Ethics Committee with attachments in the digital envelope.

October 20, 2025

Suur-Karja 23 / 15076 Tallinn, Estonia / + 372 628 2222 / [email protected] / www.kul.ee / Registration No 70000941

Laura Howells Yours: 20.10.2025

Princeton University

[email protected] Ours: 29.10.2025 No 1-18/1112-2

Integration Monitoring surveys data

The Ministry of Culture hereby grants you permission to use the anonymized raw data files of

the Estonian Integration Monitoring (EIM), in accordance with your application submitted on 20

October 2025 (Annex 1).

The Ministry of Culture provides you with the selected variables from the EIM survey years

2011, 2015, 2017, 2020, and 2023 in SPSS (.sav) format.

Please note that you are not permitted to distribute or share the datasets received with any third

parties. The right to use the data is granted solely for the purposes specified in Annex 1, within

the framework of the project “The Politics of Nation- and State-Building in Estonia.”

Annex 1. Application for the use of data for scientific purposes

Annex 2. EIM2023.sav

Annex 3. EIM2020. sav

Annex 4. EIM 2017. sav

Annex 5. EIM 2015.sav

Annex 6. EIM 2011.sav

Yours sincerely,

(signed digitally)

Eda Silberg

Undersecretary for Cultural Diversity

Karl Viilmann +372 6282246

[email protected]